Hussain did receive a degree from the University of Washington in economics and engineering. He then returned home to Dubai where he started work as an engineer with a Dubai gas company.

Hussain’s role as an employee came to an end, however, when he saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. He launched a catering company which sold food to the US Army during the Gulf Wars in the early nineties in Kuwait and Iraq.

In the year of 2002, Sajwani established DAMAC Properties, a real estate development and management firm to take advantage of another opportunity.

The UAE had just announced that they were relaxing the rules in regard to foreign nationals immigrating to the UAE. Sajwani predicted that this would be the cause of a very large boom in real estate and land development, and it turned out that he was right on the money.